Make sure you know Flex fairly well first, then check out this article to clear up any misconceptions that you should use Cairngorm all the time...
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2006/08/why_i_think_you.cfm Then check it out here: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm The multipart article links at the bottom of the last link are great! -Cameron On 1/30/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The closest I've come to Cairngorm is a drive through the national forest > that bears that name. > > > On 1/30/07, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Have you discovered Cairngorm yet? > > > > -Cameron > > > > On 1/30/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been working on this project for about 1.5 months now and it being > > my > > > first real Flex app, it was going very slow. It was painful. "What do > > you > > > mean I can't traverse a document as easy as javascript!", "I do {insert > > > method} in javascript all of the time, why can't I do it here?", and > > such. > > > Well, crunch time is quickly approaching and it wasn't looking good. > > > > > > After about 10 hours of work yesterday, suddenly the clouds parted, the > > > birds started singing and I freakin' got Flex....really really got > > > Flex....really started to understand it. I realized I had too much junk > > in > > > too large of files. I realized that I was tightly coupling the > > components > > > together instead of loosely. I realized the power of > > "dispatchEvent". I > > > realized how discreet components could be so handy. > > > > > > Now, here's the kicker....it's unbelievably easy when paired with > > Rails. I > > > am smoking through this project like never before. This project > > involves > > > pulling down xml from a webservice, parsing with xslt to get only the > > nodes > > > required, displaying it in a form so that users can add nodes at > > different > > > levels, saving the moded xml until the user is ready to post it back to > > the > > > webservice. It's also got some other neat functionality, but this is > > the > > > heart of it. > > > > > > I had tried to do this using AJAX, but kept running into problems trying > > > insert elements in an xml doc. Moz wanted to captilize everything, IE > > > didn't even want to run the xpath statements needed to figure out where > > to > > > insert the node. CF's xml handling is okay, but compared to e4x, it > > pales > > > quickly. > > > > > > I can definitely see Flex and one of my biggest hammers in my toolbox. > > > > > > zB > > > > > > -- > > > "You reached for the secret too soon, > > > You tried for the moon, > > > Shine on you crazy diamond" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:226236 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
